System Planning and Assurance Accountant

Job summary

The System Planning and Assurance Accountant is a joint role across the Integrated Care System supporting the ICB in delivering robust financial plans and integrated in-year financial reporting at a system level.

The role will draw in financial and other key operational information from each of the statutory bodies, including the ICB unitary body to develop aggregated financial modelling and reporting.

The role will liaise with financial leads for planning and reporting across the system partners and be responsible for the development of robust information for both internal and external uses.

Main duties of the job

Financial Planning

• Lead the system level financial the modelling process for the short and medium term financial position of the system taking into account the impact of external influences. This will require specialist knowledge around interpretation of financial information, excellent excel and PowerPoint skills and prior experience using ledger packages.
• Work with organisation leads to develop assumptions and analysis which will be consistently applied by all system partners when developing financial plans
• Generate, analyse and interpret highly complex data. The post holder will be required to provide simplified outputs and explanations to key stakeholders.
• The post holder will be expected understand the impact of national policy directives e.g. guidance from the planning guidance and changes to in-year guidance.
• The post holder will be expected to develop mechanisms for maintaining audit trails to underpin the planning process and to work with internal audit to support analysis of financial planning processes.
• Take responsibility for the population of national financial planning templates as required by NHS England and Improvement and support the completion of NHS England and Improvement information requests, working with partner organisations to ensure correct interpretation of data and ensure robust aggregation and/consolidation.

About us

All staff are expected to:

• ensure the confidentiality and security of all information that is dealt with in the course of performing your duties in accordance with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 2018 and adhere to the principles of Caldicott;
• be aware that the ICB operates a "Code of Conduct for handling personal identifiable information".They should become familiar with the "Code" and keep up to date with any changes that are made. Breaches of the guidelines in the "Code" could be regarded as gross misconduct and may result in serious disciplinary action being taken, up to and including dismissal. Staff are also reminded that even where they may lawfully be able to process Person-Identifiable / Person-Confidential Data, they are doing so by assuming the role of 'Data Controller', and so if they breach the "Code" or any other UK GDPR provisions, they not the ICB shall be held liable for any consequential actions undertaken by external third parties (e.g. ICO / criminal investigation or formal proceedings);
• comply with and keep up to date with the requirements of legislation such as the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and Computer Misuse Act 1990;
• ensure that your staff maintain that the confidentiality and security of all information that is dealt with in the course of performing their duties is in accordance with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 2018 and Caldicott Principles; and